Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2008 16:55:01 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: enable hpet=force for AMD SB400 |
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On Sat, 10 May 2008 01:42:30 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 9 May 2008 11:49:11 +0200 > > Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> wrote: > > > > > x86: enable hpet=force for ATI SB400 > > > > Sigh. > > > > > Add quirk to allow forced usage of HPET on ATI SB400. > > > I stumbled over machines where HPET is enabled but not reported > > > by BIOS. > > > > Is there no way in which we can probe for or identify this condition, > > rather than hoping that the user will find out about this boot option? > > I'd love to have a sane solution for that, but looking at the rate of > HPET wreckage since we increased the usage of HPET I'm happy to have > this as an opt in thingy. >
Well we don't have to auto-enable the hpet. Simply adding a loud "you should try the hpet=force option" printk would help a lot of people.
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